Example sentences of "and [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Out of five tenders Arthur Butler was selected and asked to build as soon as possible .
2 Meanwhile government forces had consolidated their positions deep inside UNITA territory near Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base , which the government claimed to have captured in February following heavy fighting , and sought to penetrate as far as the rebel headquarters at Jamba .
3 It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs .
4 A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford .
5 He rode away complacently , sure of his countrymen , whose deaths he had been so busy arranging , and meant to buy as cheaply as possible .
6 Not only men , but women and children too knitted stockings , socks , shirts , gloves , cravats and other fabrics on a frame in their cottage and continued to do so long after steam power had been applied to their craft during the middle years of the nineteenth century .
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